Adam Shires is a Melbourne based artist who is Inspired by the depth and fragility of life. He chooses to reflect this through the medium of charcoal, and tries to capture lifetimes in a single image. The preservation of these moments and the sheer incredulity that they will never happen again...... ever...... anywhere in the universe are what drive him. Through his art he connects the past to the present and conserves these moments to share with the world.
Having been an ardent drawer since a very young age he's always been fascinated with the symbiotic relationship of perception, imagination and preservation. Upon discovering charcoal in high school, he fell in love with the vast spectrum of emotion one could create through the medium. So began a lifelong romance with this simplest of substances. Through carbon we capture the memories of carbon life and preserve them for an eternity of viewers, a reflection on the legacy of ourselves.